Honor killing has not now restricted to North India; the evil has now gone to Andhra Pradesh of South India. Swapna, a high cast girl was married to Sonkari- a low cast boy. Sonkari met Swapna, fell in her love and proposed marrying her. Soon…
Month: May 2010
Story of an Air-Conditioner
My clinic is situated in the basement and I have been working there for twenty six years. When I started my practice there I was quite young and could tolerate the heat of the summer easily. Moreover the basement had cross ventilation, as there was…
Peter and Three Dead
Three men were standing in a queue to get in to the heaven. Apparently it was a busy day, so Peter said, “The heaven seems to be full today, and I have been asked to admit only one who got horrible death. You tell me…
Power of Attorney is now Power less
Delhi Govt has now banned sale and purchase of plots in unauthorized colonies that are about 1500 in number. Although sale deed or registration of such plots was also not exercised even before this order, now the sale- purchase of these plots can’t be done…
An Old Lady and A Horse Rider
It is a story of those days when means of transport were different from the ones available nowadays. Those people used to go anywhere either on foot or on horses and such like animals as no other means of transportation was used at that time.…
A Saint and The Rich
Once upon a time a saint lived in Haridwar, a sacred place for Hindus now in Uttrakhand. He was quite popular among his disciples and in India too. It was believed that he had some supernatural powers. He lived with simplicity so that people paid…
Maharana Pratap- the great warrior
Maharana Pratap was wandering in the hills along with his small family when he faced the Moughuls. In the last, the day came when there was no food available to eat. Grinding the remaining cereals, his wife prepared some ‘Roti’ which were snatched by a…
‘Shame Party’
There is a lot of craze for ‘shame party’ seen in America and Europe nowadays. In these parties, people disclose their old secrets before strangers and share their old shameful acts which were not revealed in front of any one till today. Such parties are…
Two mangoes and one servant
Once Ramesh was waiting for his guest at home when he called his servant and gave him two ripe mangoes. He instructed his servant, Suboo that he should cut these mangoes artistically and serve them to the guest when he had arrived there. Suboo thus…
Generation gap and Foolishness
The day before yesterday, Munna’s, a young boy of about thirty years old, father rang me up and said with morose, “Munna quarrels with me and other family members. Will you come to my house to tackle my problem? It is better if you come…